AN ACT to increase the funding for advanced teaching roles salary supplements and grants.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction an additional sixteen million two hundred thousand dollars ($16,200,000) in recurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year and an additional twenty million one hundred thousand dollars ($20,100,000) in recurring funds for the 2026‑2027 fiscal year to bring the total revised net appropriation to the Department to twenty‑seven million one hundred thousand dollars ($27,100,000) in recurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year and thirty‑one million dollars ($31,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2026‑2027 fiscal year for the Department to allocate to public school units participating in the Advanced Teaching Roles program to provide salary supplements under G.S. 115C‑310.13.

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction an additional one million dollars ($1,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year to bring the total revised net appropriation to the Department to six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) in recurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year for the Department to expand the Advanced Teaching Roles program in accordance with Article 20A of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.